Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hollow, dismal tone...
...study in my dismal...
...Sophomore year, I moved into Matthews. Alas! a week later, as I was trying to study, I heard a dismal tooting beneath me. After hearing 'Nancy Lee' attempted some twenty times, I got desperate, and pounded on the floor with truly Sophomoric courage. Up came a wrathy Senior, and informed me that he should practise on his cornet as much as he pleased, and that if I did n't like it I could move. And this was not the worst; a Freshy overhead was lucky enough to have a piano, and banged 'Whoa! Emma,' and other Freshmanic ditties...
...wreck lay on the dismal shore...
...these days, when college discipline is managed with such precision, and the unhappy student who enters No. 5 is passed on from room to room, as his iniquities grow larger and his excuses weaker, until he comes out of the sieve feeling very small indeed, - in these dismal times it is refreshing to look back to the happy days of our fathers, when postal cards were not invented, when the Registrar was unheard of, and the Dean troubled not the dreams of Freshmen...